Two Peoples Separated By A Common Language
 

Love the game obviously, but has anyone else noticed how much confusion there is in BoP between British and American accents? During the BoB missions we constantly hear American accents in the radio chatter, then during the last Sicily missions we are flying as a USAAF pilot in an early Mustang with British markings and American accents flying around all over the place. Huh?

Is this is a product of the Russian/English language barrier? Was there going to be some explanation for this involving Eagle squadron or something that never got put into the game, or just another sign of the rush put on the devs by the publishers, that they did one set of english language voice overs?

Its not a huge deal, just kind of a weird oversight.

It does seem rather odd in places.

Sometimes i do find it hard to distinguish between american and british and who im fighting for. Ah well, i dont need to go back and play through so no big deal on my part :)

I kinda have that issue in on line too. I love the Brits, and my non-USA friends I fly with. There are several Britts, and one guy I think he is from Austria? But, sometimes, I have a hard time understanding their accents, even though I assume it is really considered to them that Americans have the accent, lol.. The guy from Austria, also one I flew with a couple times I think was a Chechavokian... I really do enjoy flying with them, and we do have allot of dialog, and allot of times, I just can't understand what he is saying to me even though he is speaking English. I think his native language is German and his English is pretty good, but still sort of broken, and terms he is not sure how to convey to to me. And I even taken German in school and used to speak it (however not fluently). That was 20 + years ago when I served in the USAF over in germany, so I am used to the dialog, but still today over the headset, I get tired and embarrased to keep saying "HUH?"... Not to mention American's accent and how we really do butcher the English language.. hehheh..

Your forgetting that the RAF in WW2 was a multi-national force. There were plenty of US and Canadian Pilots flying for them.

Very true.

The voice overs for this game though are shoddy at best. Though one particlur bit of raido chatter i do like (love it infact) is when you fly against a 109 and your in a spitfire... you get a round off and you hear the german say "achtung spitfire" or something along that line, but "spitfire" is definately said, making it sound epic lol.

No, I'm not forgetting, I asked in my original post if this was something having to do with Eagle Squadron that was never fully fleshed out in the game. While the RAF had multinational units, it was still primarily British, thus having mainly American accents on the radio in the Battle of Britain is a little odd. that needs explaining, or someone just goofed, and my money is on the latter.

from wikipedia article on Non-British Personnel in the Battle of Britain:

The RAF Roll of Honour for the Battle of Britain recognises 574 pilots from countries other than the United Kingdom, as flying at least one authorised operational sortie with an eligible unit during the period from 10 July to 31 October 1940, alongside 2,353 British pilots.[

I think Doktorwzzerd is right. Only seven Americans are recognized as having flown in the BoB, out of thousands of pilots. (Note that this number includes those pretending to be Canadian. Legally, Americans were not supposed to fight in foreign militaries at all.) The Eagle Squadrons didn't become operational until the BoB was well over.

Are these pilots speaking with "American" accents actually Canadians? That might make more sense -- except according to my aged high school English teacher who was alive at the time (I'm Canadian), most Canadians prior to WW2 spoke with British accents; during WW2 many might still have sounded British. It was probably the influence of American television (or perhaps radio) that caused our accents to gradually sound more American over time. Can any other Canadians confirm this?

the radio chatter hasnt really bothered me much at least they didnt make us brits sound like the normal cheesy spiffs eg oh jolly good old chap tally ho oh spiffing etc it really cheeses me off when games do that and the odd film :grin:

Voice chatter gives many lol moments. Though I get sick of hearing "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?" screamed through my speakers every two seconds.

LOL, there was one time one of the missions glitched on me, and wouldn't give me my next objective... Well, I keep hearing the guys screaming "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR" at me when there were no enemies... I was getting so choked... lol :-P